tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post3545175537162307925..comments2024-03-28T08:17:02.778-04:00Comments on Multiplication by Infinity: Fukushima: It's All About The Spent Fuel Rods PoolSteven Colyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-8632308776182118112011-03-23T06:46:15.253-04:002011-03-23T06:46:15.253-04:00Hi hear you GW. I suppose I should put up a Politi...Hi hear you GW. I suppose I should put up a Political Jokes post, but if I did it would be like a bottomless pit of a black hole for me, and I might not ever stop!<br /><br />Here's my favorite one, by my favorite dead American author:<br /><br /><i><b>First you have your idiots.<br />Then you have Congressmen.<br />But I repeat myself.</b></i><br />... Mark TwainSteven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-55752289833302299082011-03-23T00:35:31.292-04:002011-03-23T00:35:31.292-04:00I suppose politics could be considered a four-lett...I suppose politics could be considered a four-letter word, except it has too many damned letters.<br /><br />GWGary Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06723964751681093047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-42307510481566036312011-03-22T19:33:15.727-04:002011-03-22T19:33:15.727-04:00Hi Steven,
I liked Reagan the man yet disliked Re...Hi Steven,<br /><br />I liked Reagan the man yet disliked Reagan the politician, while with Jimmy Carter I liked both. I’m not certain what you mean by Carter being a micro manager as from what I can remember he even listened to his young daughter Amy when it came to things like nuclear disarmament:-) <br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-49343442391331824832011-03-22T12:14:02.122-04:002011-03-22T12:14:02.122-04:00Phil, I totally love Jim-muh and his wife Roslyn b...Phil, I totally love Jim-muh and his wife Roslyn but don't ever forget he is still to this day considered a mixed bag and is quite controversial.<br /><br />As an MBA, I can assure you that he and the president who followed him, Ronald Reagan, were and are considered the two extremes of Management "types", neither one considered "good", if you or your organization wish to do well. Reagan was the ultimate delegator and Carter the ultimate micro-manager.<br /><br />Both were a "fail" in that sense.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-35495059559185431582011-03-20T20:49:50.585-04:002011-03-20T20:49:50.585-04:00Hi Steven,
Yes you’re right Carter was too honest...Hi Steven,<br /><br />Yes you’re right Carter was too honest and yet he was a visionary. Ronald Reagan couldn’t wait to get into the Whitehouse to tear down the solar panels Carter had installed. As for Trudeau he never had any support in the west to begin with and thus was taking little risk. He is a completely different story as not being an engineer or scientist yet rather an intellectual of the social/political stripe which I ‘ve always been even more wary of then the lawyers. Yes it true that only Hoover and Carter were engineer’s yet Washington was once a surveyor and Jefferson an Architect for a time.<br /><br />As for Canadian Prime Ministers we had Alexander Mackenzie as a stone mason, Charles Tupper a physician, William Lyon Mackenzie King a academic intellectual, Lester B. Pearson Professor of History and foreign affairs, Pierre Trudeau, Professor and intellectual. The rest unfortunately have all been lawyers.<br /><br />The one who I thought who should have given it shot however was lured away by our American cousins only to <a href="http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/television/clips/15279/" rel="nofollow">to keep them amused</a> :-) <br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-32941025747365023352011-03-20T18:33:33.020-04:002011-03-20T18:33:33.020-04:00Wow, Phil, you're quite the poster today, than...Wow, Phil, you're quite the poster today, thanks. Yeah, Carter, what can I say? He was too honest. He called voters lazy, and he was right, and that's suicidal politics. Is it AS suicidal as raising taxes when you say you won't, like Daddy Bush did? No. But it's pretty bad.<br /><br />As far as Engineering Presidents go, we've only had two as far as I know, Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, and they were both one-termers. I think it has something to do vs the honesty of Math and Science running up against the inherent cesspool dishonesty of Politics.<br /><br />On your side of the border, for example, I'm still laughing at that moment so long ago when former PM Pierre Trudeau gave the middle finger from a train to the people of Saskatchewan as he was passing through, remember? Wow, funny. I bet that didn't help him in the next election. ;-)<br /><br />Yeah, Carter as ambassador? Well, he WAS a nuclear engineer, having worked for the incomparable genius Hyman Rickover, but I wouldn't fret too much about Japan. They are an ancient culture and a tough people, and very competent for the most part (except for their recent financial situation, and that was beFORE this disaster). They'll bounce back, and bounce back well, I'm sure.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-22324738388042702492011-03-20T17:46:05.391-04:002011-03-20T17:46:05.391-04:00Hi Steven,
It would be nice if past President Jim...Hi Steven,<br /><br />It would be nice if past President Jimmy Carter were offered to act as a Presidential special envoy in this matter. I say this because he is one of the few living people to have <a href="http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/news/when_jimmy_carter_faced_radioactivity_head_on/" rel="nofollow">actually faced such a situation</a> and thus could perhaps prove very useful as a liaison. That is it’s one thing to talk about theory and yet completely different when it’s expected to be turned into practice. I always admired President Carter and thought him not getting a second term not only marked a sad turning point in American history yet for the world more generally. Let more engineers and scientist run the world and we would all be bettered served is what I say.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-51211854402697805642011-03-20T16:33:07.062-04:002011-03-20T16:33:07.062-04:00Hi Steven,
What I really wanted to convey is ther...Hi Steven,<br /><br />What I really wanted to convey is there are people around the world that can help in such trying times having experience going back to the very beginnings of the technology, such as held by you <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1" rel="nofollow">Yanks</a> and us <a href="http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/zeep.cfm" rel="nofollow">Canucks</a> along with many others. <br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-3748466477105572782011-03-20T11:35:28.355-04:002011-03-20T11:35:28.355-04:00Hi Steven,
I find myself with mixed feeling regar...Hi Steven,<br /><br />I find myself with mixed feeling regarding the recent events in Japan, with my first being my overwhelming sorrow regarding what has happened and yet my second being how the insular nature of their society has not only made things more difficult for themselves, yet potentially more dangerous for those beyond their concern. <br /><br />That is there is a fine line between the strengths of the nobility found in self reliance and the folly mitigated by such when extended to the consequence(s) of arrogance. I’m not suggesting the Japanese being the only people so inflicted, simply reminding they being one of the most vulnerable. In contrast I’m encouraged by the position your president has taken in respect to the situation in Libya, where he places America as a supporter of the international position, rather than a representative of solely national concerns and policy. In such respect I find the direction of Japan and America as the former being mostly oblivious to others and the later in mindful recognition. Thus my concern rests more with matters such as this, rather than any concern of a technical nature. That is when it comes to the consequence of losing face it being important as to which one you see as being reflected in the mirror.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.com